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‘Ambitious but achievable’: industry-led net zero building standard launched
A pilot standard for net zero carbon buildings has been launched today by more than 350 industry experts
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The latest architecture news covering buildings, architects, planning, competition wins and business. You can also read about topics including the climate emergency, retrofit, the RIBA and architectural education
Learning from Grenfell: architects still have much soul searching to do
Richard Waite and Gino Spocchia take an in-depth look at the Grenfell Tower Inquiry report and assess what its ramifications could be for the profession
AJ Architecture Awards 2024 shortlists Part 2: Heritage to School
The AJ is delighted to announce its second set of finalists of this year’s AJ Architecture Awards. Revealed today are the shortlists in the Heritage, Higher Education, Infrastructure and Transport, Refurb and School categories
Retrofirst stories: how ECD is deep-retrofitting occupied 1930s council homes
Marion Gray, senior architect at ECD Architects, talks to the AJ about revamping 1930s housing stock – while still occupied – as part of its Cambridge Net Zero Retrofit Pilot Project
Foster + Partners drawing up Old Trafford masterplan
Manchester United FC has chosen Foster + Partners to develop a masterplan for the land around its Old Trafford home
Government proposes fast-track approvals via ‘brownfield passport’
The new Labour government is looking to introduce a ‘brownfield passport’ to give proposals which meet design and quality standards automatic planning approval
Kirkland Fraser Moor builds ‘bungaroosh’ Paragraph 84 home
Kirkland Fraser Moor has completed a single-storey ‘country house clause’ home in rural Hertfordshire using waste brick
Revealed: first of the AJ Architecture Awards 2024 shortlists
The AJ is delighted to announce the finalists of this year’s AJ Architecture Awards. The first to be revealed are in the Civic, Community and Faith, Cultural, Health and Wellbeing and Landscape and Public Realm categories
Buckley Gray Yeoman’s £350m Greenwich Peninsula masterplan approved
Buckley Gray Yeoman (BGY) has been granted planning permission for a £350 million residential-led high-rise development on the Greenwich Peninsula
Top contractor heads for collapse, leaving doubts over major projects
The nation’s sixth-largest building contractor, ISG, has filed for administration, casting uncertainty over scores of projects nationwide